... all the time.  Drove me crazy.  So I try to send you only things from which I think you might, really, truly profit or laugh at ... or cry.   

 

"Peanut" is  "Py's"  7 year old adopted daughter he found out about while he was on a week-long hunting trip in the bayou.  A scrawly note pinned to his tent.:  "Your beautiful daughter arrived, yesterday, 2 PM."

 

Last Tango
Bee had a late dinner engagement with some clients a few towns away
so Peanut and I stayed up to watch the Olympics figure skating until she got home,
Peanuts eyes got all big
as she watched the beautiful dancers go through their Tango routines
with haughty faces and dark romantic sneers.
"I want to do that " she said aloud watching the  Femme fatale of the Russians move across the ice in lighting precision
Why not ?; "Carpe Diem ; Seize the day...... and with that  Peanut reaches for my hand
and I join her in a tango across the ice of our living room
Peanut had never attempted a tango before and I am a little rusty since I pulled two all nighters in the tango bars on the infamous Boca  waterfront in Bueanos Aires

Peanuts  style is  monkey see ....monkey do   which is a little different than they do it down there ;besides were skaking
My job is sorta like cheer captain making sure she dosen't fall as we twist and twirl around the room and Yes there is some height and weight difference  to  this  odd couple
much like the  giant who dances  with the  mouse  in the  circus routine 
but the  judges are supportive  our  two house cats ( Char Char and Clou Clou )
  approve of  the match up  leaving our dog  Sugar Bear  to tilt her  head sideways and just watch in case she has to get out of the way    .
She does ....The ice wasn't so smooth ;;The first thing  to get knocked over was some paper desert plates; then not long after a  small foot stool (which scattered the judges  to the top  of the couch ).

This then  produced a burst of giggles from peanut  to which I offered  her to slow down but she wouldn't have any of it 
Then it happened
In a burst of  ten year old shrieks ; she  drove her poor partner across the floor in an apache dance of spinning twirls  which ended with a barefoot kick to the air catching Mommies favorite antique brass floor lamp portside
Everything went slow motion after that
. The lamp joined us harmoniously in mid air in a delightful  spin  then  took a crash course towards earth  as we shrieked to catch it .
Nothing doing ; the explsosion was terrific ;  bursting bulbs and a lound bang of electricity sent the dog barking at us plunging our gay world of Tango into darkness  .
If this was the meaning of platos cave  then I  got  it  
"Now weve done it " "Oh daddy what re we going to do  ?
  Were cooked ...'Momma is due home any minuet "
Daddy was  hapless at this point ;
Mommy was paticular about her lamp; and the torture meted out could be tribal and painful
With precious seconds I put the sub into  an emergency dive stations
sounding  the claxton and the diving bells 
upon hearing this Peanut went into a  chineese fire drill  with the broom and pan in an emergency tidy up
while the captain asceratined the damge to the ship .
Lucky  for us  I think its just the bulbs;
We get the glass  swept up in the Great Leap forward  of zealously working  the pan and the  broom .
I find new bulbs and carefully remove the old ones
"Bingo " .....there was light.... and it was good

The lights come on just as we hear the car entering in the drive.
We take to our respective chairs to  position ourselves in lounge control just long enough to give the appearance as if nothing has happened when Momma comes through the back door.

Mary  still up ?...How the Olympics?
She asks greeting us and wanting to hear all about it....as she fiddles in the kitchen
"Oh Momma sez " peanut all excited "
the last couple was really super  ;" I mean they were really really good  doing the Tango  with kicks in mid air "
...In mid air ?" Doing the Tango ? ....momma asks incredulous from her kitchen tasks  . "Were they really  that good  ?"
   "Yeah "   Sure were "  I pipe in  throwing my new tango partner a glance with a  wink   "  
"They  were so good ....they could really put your lights out " ......../Py .